TY - CHAP

T1 - CITY:mobil : A Model for Integration in Sustainability Research

AU - Bergmann, Matthias

AU - Jahn, Thomas

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - The project ‘Strategies for a Sustainable Urban Mobility’ (‘Stadtverträgliche Mobilität – Handlungsstrategien für eine ökologisch und sozial verträgliche, ökonomisch effiziente Verkehrsentwicklung in Stadtregionen’) is a good example of successful integration work. Researchers from a number of different disciplines, as well as planners from two model cities, formed the research group CITY:mobil and cooperated within this project to develop innovative research methods, on the one hand, and planning tools aimed at a more sustainable mobility in cities, on the other. The project was designed to integrate planning and technical aspects as well as economic, ecological and social goals. Thus, the rather complex task of knowledge integration and social integration by the project team was one of the central challenges within the research process. Therefore, after introducing the details of this specific research project, we conclude with a universal model for a transdisciplinary research process. This model can support researchers in planning and conducting the complex integration demands to meet the dual targets of integrated research results for the area of interest (i.e. the societal problems being the starting point of the research project), and of new interdisciplinary or disciplinary results (e.g. methods, concepts and theories).

AB - The project ‘Strategies for a Sustainable Urban Mobility’ (‘Stadtverträgliche Mobilität – Handlungsstrategien für eine ökologisch und sozial verträgliche, ökonomisch effiziente Verkehrsentwicklung in Stadtregionen’) is a good example of successful integration work. Researchers from a number of different disciplines, as well as planners from two model cities, formed the research group CITY:mobil and cooperated within this project to develop innovative research methods, on the one hand, and planning tools aimed at a more sustainable mobility in cities, on the other. The project was designed to integrate planning and technical aspects as well as economic, ecological and social goals. Thus, the rather complex task of knowledge integration and social integration by the project team was one of the central challenges within the research process. Therefore, after introducing the details of this specific research project, we conclude with a universal model for a transdisciplinary research process. This model can support researchers in planning and conducting the complex integration demands to meet the dual targets of integrated research results for the area of interest (i.e. the societal problems being the starting point of the research project), and of new interdisciplinary or disciplinary results (e.g. methods, concepts and theories).

KW - Sustainability Science

KW - Sustainable mobility management

KW - Cognitive integration

KW - Boundary object

KW - Problem transformation

KW - Social-ecological research

KW - Societal relationships to nature

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/3f40aee1-76f1-3738-883b-c07eed458ae1/

U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4020-6699-3_6

DO - 10.1007/978-1-4020-6699-3_6

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-1-4020-6700-6

SN - 978-1-4020-6698-6

SP - 89

EP - 102

BT - Handbook of Transdisciplinary Research

A2 - Hadorn, Gertrude Hirsch

A2 - Hoffmann-Riem, Holger

A2 - Biber-Klemm, Suette

A2 - Großenbacher-Mansuy, Walter

A2 - Joye, Dominique

A2 - Pohl, Christian

A2 - Wiesmann, Urs

A2 - Zemp, Elisabeth

PB - Springer Verlag

CY - Dordrecht

ER -